Results tagged “Middle East” from Friendly Fire

Okay, Jonathan, that was the shortest-lived liberal-conservative Friendly Fire honeymoon ever. Here's the beef at least for me regarding Israel and the Palestinians. The only way that there can be peace in the Middle East is for the Palestinians to basically accept responsibility for themselves and their plight, alter their thinking and consciousness and stop shooting at, killing and maiming and blowing up the Israelis. Period. The end.

This may be easier said than done because of the victim mentality that has been drilled into them as well as the hatred of their Jewish neighbors. Years ago before I became a hard-wired curmudgeon and an out-and-out conservative, I was an English teacher teaching business writing to accountants from foreign countries at Arthur Anderson long before it was discovered that they were cooking their books, even if they were cooking them back then.

One of the men announced that he was from Palestine and at first refused to have anything to do with me. As luck, fate or the heavens would have it he wound up in my class, which didn't thrill either one of us at first, I am sure. Over the month-long course, we got to be friendly, we'd sit down at dinner together, and he told me that the first time he saw a Jewish person, it was an Israeli soldier, and he was shocked because he thought that we all had horns. We wound up getting along so well that he said that he is allowed to have multiple wives and invited me to visit him in his country.

From the outset, it is thinking and teaching like this that kills things. I was hoping that that would change now that Arafat has met his maker, but it doesn't seem to be the case. In fact, things have only gotten worse.